Winds from the east and northeast -- a different direction than normal -- were impacting lifts at some resorts Thursday, but others were in good shape as the snow continued to fall.

"It's not over," said Tom Hawley, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.

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Hawley said the bulk of the storm was still winding its way up and centered between Block Island and Martha's Vineyard.

"We'll be at it all day," he said of the all-snow event, with the exception of the area of New Hampshire from Portsmouth to Derry, which was getting a mix.

Winds were worst on the coast, gusting to 50 mph, but inland, Hawley said the worst would be about 35 mph gusts.

The storm models had him expecting the most snow to fall in the Mount Washington Valley and Eastern Coos with as much as 16 inches before it was all over, and the Connecticut River Valley picking up the least, about 4 to 6 inches, other than the Seacoast which was getting hammered with tides two feet higher than normal.

But for folks thinking of snowmobiling around the Diamond Pond and Coleman Park areas in Pittsburg, Hawley was thinking maybe 16 inches of fresh dry snow was coming from this storm.

Waterville Valley, which often is impacted by prevailing westerly winds, was sitting pretty.

"It's piling up," said Bobby Foster, who handles marketing at Waterville Valley, at 10 a.m. About 6 more inches had been falling from the early morning report of 4 inches and it was coming down about an inch an hour.

He said all lifts but High Country, the one at the very top of Mount Tecumseh, were turning and loading skiers and riders.

Loon and Bretton Woods were having to place some of their lifts on wind hold as the gusts clocked upslope.